Time stamp



J. W. ADLON,

TIME STAMP Sept. 4, 1928. 1,683,319

" Filed Dec. 20, 1926 4 awn r012 J'MADLOIY BY LQ V tact with the lower face of the drum 8.

Patented Sept. 4, 1928.

UNITED STATES JOSEPH W. ADLON, OF ST, LOUIS, MillsSAJ'UQRJI.

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Application filed December 2.0, 192 s ria No. 155,904.

My invention relates to a new and useful imm'ovement in time stamps and has for its object to provide a highly eiiicient and relatively inexpensive device which is economical to manufacture, easy to assemble. and requires a minimum of power from the time keeping elementto operate the movable parts.

Fig. I is a front View of my improved time stamp partly in section and partly in dotted lines. g V v Fig. II is a side elevation of my improve-d time stamp partly in section.

Fig. III is an enlarged View taken through the housing with the watch removed.

Fig. IV-is an enlarged detail sectional view through the bottom portion of my improved time stamp showing the case of the timekeeping member partly broken awav.

Fig. V is a bottom view of my improved time stamp.

In the drawing. A designates a time-keeping member, preferably a watch provided with stem winding and setting mechanism B. C is a handle secured by a threaded pin D to a curved portion E which is secured to the housing for the time-stamping mechanism. The portion E is connected to the housing 1 ,by four screws 2 and 3. respectively. Holes 4 are drilled in the casing of the watchA directly opposite each other, and into theseholes the inner ends of the screws 8 are adapted to project for positively holding the watch A in position in the housing 1.

5 is pinion upon which the minute hand of the watch A is mounted on the face side of said. watch. 6 is a member securely 'fastened by frictional engagement to the pinion 5 so as to positively rotate therewith, and 7 is a lever carried by said member 6.- 8 is a cylindrical drum having a slot 9 for the reception of the lever 7. The 'drum 8 is connected to the upper end of a shaft 10, said shaft being adapted torotate with the drum 8. 11 is a small toothed wheel also mounted on the shaft 10 and securely in con- 12 is a large toothed wheel meshing with the toothed wheel 11. The toothed wheel 12 has a smaller toothed wheel 13 associated there with, both the toothed wheels 12 and 13 being mounted on'a shaft 14 fixed in the housing 1'.

15 is a large toothed wheel meshing with the small toothed wheel 13, said toothed wheel 15 being carried by a sleeve 16 mounted for rotation in the housing 1. It will be noted in Fig. IV that the sleeve 16 surrounds the shaft 10, 17 is a cylindrical drum mounted 0.11 the lower end of the sleeve 16, and to this is connected a small rubber indicating pointer18 19 is a small cylindrical drum mounted on the lower end of the shaft 10 and this carries 7 a rubber block 20, which is provided with indicating pointer 21 (see Fig, V) also of rubber, 22 1s a rubber impression member whlch 1s provlded with a representation of. a

watchface bearing the numerals 1 to 12, as

shown in Fig. V. 23 is a spaceprovided in the rubber block 22 in which may be inserted the appropriate type plugs, to inclicatcthe month, day and year.

In the operation of my device the watch A 1s open-face and of a standard. size variety, having a rear plate for the hack of said watch, which plate I provide with a circular opening, as shown at 24.- in FiglV, in order that the cylindrical drum 8 may freely fit into said opening 24. I then drive the member 6 carrying the lever 7 securely upon the'shaft 5 which is the end opposite to that end which carries the minnte'hand of said watch, The watch A is then placed face up in the housing 1 and securedin position therein bythe screws 3, the ends of which pass into the holes 4 which I make'in the sides of the watch casing A to receive the same The lever 6 then fits intotheslot 9 in the cylindrical drum 8, and by means of It will be noted that the shaft 7 isof sufficient length so'that minor inaccuracies may readily be taken care of and. yet have sufficient operative length to at all times fit into operative relationship with the cylindrical drum 8. 'j i The small gear wheel 11 and the cylindrical drum 8 beingmounted together on the shaft 10, rotation of said shaft is caused by the drum 8, which shaft in turn drives the small cylindrical drum 19 which carries the hour-indicatingpointer 18. The small gear wheel 11 meshes with the large gear wheel 12, which in turn is fixed to the small gear wheel 13, and these are mounted for rotation on the shaft 14: fixed in the housing 1. The large gear wheel 15 in turn meshes with the small gear wheel 13, which drives the sleeve '16, which in turn drives the cylindrical drum 17 mounted on the lower end of said sleeve 16, which drum carries the minute-indicating pointer 21. Thedrum 16 and the drum 17 rotate freely within the rubber member 22. The indicating figures on the rubber member 22 show the hours and minutes and the pointers 18 and 21 indicate just what hour and substantially what minute the watch A records. When the month, day and year plugs are inserted in the opening 23the time stamp is ready for use, and by contacting the face shown in Fig. V with an ink pad the design may be transmitted to the letter or other paper which it is desired to imprint with the time-indicating design shown in V Fig. V.

ally from the shaft carrying the minute hand of said watch, a rotary member operatively associated with said lever and provided with a slot through which said elongated lever extends, a series of members operatively-associated with. said slotted member for moving two time-indicating pointers, one denoting the hour and the other the minute, and a printing pad having time-indicating characters thereon associated with said time-indieating pointers.

2; In a time stamp, a housing, a watch removably mounted in said housing, an elongated lever provided with an offset portion connected to and extended radially from the shaft carrying the minute hand of said watch,

a rotary cylindrical drum associated with said lever and having a slot formed through a wall thereof through which said elongated lever extends, a small gear wheel associated with said cylindrical drum, a large gear Wheel associated with said small gear wheel and adapted to be operated thereby, another small gear wheel associated with said large gear wheel and adapted to be rotated by and in unison with said large gear wheel, a second large gear wheel operatively assoclated with said second-named small gear wheel,

another cylindrical drum connected to said last-named large gear wheel and adapted to be operated thereby, said cylindrical drum carrying a time-indicating pointer, a smaller cylindrical drum mounted in said last-named cylindrical drum and carrying another timeindicating pointer, and a printing-pad having time-indicating characters thereon cooperatively associated with said time-indi eating pointers whereby the time indicated on the face of the watch is recorded on the bottom side ofthe time stamp.

3. A time stamp comprising, in combination, a casing having an opening formed in its rear face, a watch mechanism positioned within the casing with the minute hand shaft ofthe mechanism terminating within the confines of the casing and in alinementwith the opening, resilient time indicating pointers located exteriorly of the casing, and means for connecting the minute hand shaft with the time indicating pointers, said means comprising a member rigidly mounted on the extremity of the minute hand shaft, a 1ncmber interposed between said last named member and the time indicating pointers, and a lever carried by one of said members and adapted to engage slidingly the other of said 4. A time stamp comprisin tion, a housing, a watch mechanism mounted in the housing, and time indicating printing members located exteriorly of the housing and operated-by the Watch mechanism, the

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g, in comblnahousing being provided with an opening for receiving the connections extendingbetween the watch mechanism and the time indicating printing members, and these latter members being located laterally offset from the open ing whereby jars imparted to the stamp during the use'thereof will beinflicted upon the housing and not upon the connections.

In testimony that I claim theforegoing I hereunto aflix my signature.

JOSEPH W. ADLON, 

